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This kidnapping in Portugal is a disturbing event. This young girl was kidnapped from her bed as her parents ate dinner not 100 feet from where their infant daughter lay.

The young girl's photograph has been plastered everywhere in the hope of pricking someone's memory. So far it's been unsuccessful. The picture shows a very pretty young girl who would be prime fodder for the types of scum who would perpetrate such an act.

Sir Richard Branson, and in an indication of the huge success of her 'Potter' novels, J K Rowling, have offered large sums of reward to anyone with information leading to the girls rescue.

The most recognizable face in football, David Beckham has also joined in, appearing on TV with a picture of the girl, and pleading for anyone with any information to go to the police. Even a biker group has got involved, riding all over the country with the picture of Madeline stuck over their bikes. The kidnapping seems to have galvinized the world.

And rightly so, it has to be said. I can only imagine how the parents must feel as every nightmare scenario they can imagine runs through their already tortured minds.

How the person responsible for this heinous act, when he's caught, won't be executed is another beggaring belief.